On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:51 -0400, M P Smoak wrote: > On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:05, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 22:51 -0700, Thomas Vecchione wrote: > > > > Yeah it's unfortunate. Maybe the rise of these cheap knockoffs > > > > is what drove a company like Creative, who were one of the first > > > > to open their drivers in the mid 1990s, to their current position > > > > of not releasing any hardware specs or Linux drivers at all. > > > > > > Well truth be told, not much has changed quality wise since then;) > > > Ok I jest some, but I dont really find creative to be all that > > > great anymore myself. Not even a big fan of the EMU line;) > > > > Oh, it sure has changed - it's gone down the shitter. Creative's new > > stuff is garbage compared to the SBLive! which IMHO was a brilliant > > piece of hardware. > > > > Lee, what's your opinion of the CREATIVE AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM? A buddy > and I have been (very slowly) building a replacement for my current > SBlive PlanetCCRMA/RH9 machine. We've got all the hardware done now > and are getting ready to install PlanetCCRMA/FC5 "soon as we can find > the time"... Is this a "good move" audio quality/function wise? TIA > for your thoughts. It's a good card, it's what I have in the machine I am typing this on. Lee
